The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-07


Columbia Friday.
The Marion Iron Works has been organ
/ lied at Marion rs joint stock company,
with a capital Of 5000.
The four trestles on the Three C's road in
Lancaster county have been completed, and
the road bed is ready for the rails.
! A convention of the third and fourth class
postmasters of the Fifth Congressional dis
trict was held at Anderson ON Nov. 4.
The Rev. B. W. Whilden, of Abbeville,
| has been unanimously called TO the pasto-
rate Of the Baptist Church at Williamson
The Rev. I. D. Clark, who recently re-
signed the pastorate Of the Edgefield Bap-
fist church, will move 10 Washington, D. c.
Col H. w. Addison has called meeting
of the disabled Confederate soldiers of
| Edgefeld county, at the court house, on
Nov. Z.
The entries for the State fair are being
made with great rapidity. and are as numer-
Gus as they have ever heen There is abso-
lutte certainty of a splendid exhibit.
At Greenville, Friday, County Commits
| sioner Goodwin awarded the contract for
| building Easley bridge over the Saluda
river to Contractor Day. The bid was
81 AIS.
Gov. Richardson has been invited by the
| Chamber of Commerce of Birmingham,
| Ala. to attend the convention of the Gulf
| Department of the American Shipping
and Industrial League III that city on Nov.
| S. . and 10, but declined on account of the
near approach of the legislative session.
Railroad Commissioner Bonham, after
| inspecting a section of eleven miles of the
| Wilmington, Chadbouru and Conway rail
| road, has authorized it JoNhe sopened for
| travel Thirty-one miles of this road have
now been inspected and opened, and track
/ LAYING has progressed within six miles OF
| Conway, the terminus.
Joseph Harris. freight engineer charged
| with responsibility for the recent railroad
collision near Greers, surrendered 10 the
| Sheriff at Greenvile Tuesday. Fab went TO
| Spartanburg Tuesday afternoon on writ
of habeas corpus to apply for bail before
| Judge Norton, and was released upon fur
nishing a bond for $1,000
Greenville will soon have another cotton
mill. The new concern will manufacture
piaids, and &. Fl. Lanneau, late manager
and treasurer of the Huguenot plaid mill is
at the head of the scheme. The capital will
be $4,000. The site has not yet been fixed
but Will probably be inside the limits. The
new cotton warehouse of the Camperdown
mills is about complete and cotton is being
stored in it.
The Sinking Fund Commission held a
meeting Tuesday and wound up the busl-
ness of the fiscal year, receiving the report
| of the Secretary of State, who is, eX-officio,
| the agent of the commission. During the
year, by the application of the funds in the
hands of the commission the State debt has
been reduced S32. 517 80, and there is at
present an available balance in hand of
about S27, 900.
OF the thirteen railroads which have sent
their reports for September to the Railroad
Commission, the Laurens railway is the only
one which shows a decrease in earnings
from September, 1885, The net increase of
the thirteen roads for the month is S77 ,069
| The increase is large for all around, varying
from per cent on the Chester and Lenoir
to 80 per cent on the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta, and "a per cent on the Cheraw
and Chester. The Richmond and Danville
roads in the State show a net increase of 30
per cent
Hon. jefferson Davis has been elected an
honorary member of the Confederate Sur
vivors Association of Richland county. Mr..
Davis wrote a characteristic letter of &C
ceptance. The following Generals were
elected honorary members: John B. Cor
don, Wade Hampton, NJ G.. Butler, G. T.
Beauregard and Joseph K. Johnston. A
resolution was passed inviting Gov. Gordon
to deliver an address before the association
at its annual meeting to be held on the next
Memorial day A committee was appointed
to extend the invitation.
The marshals who have been appointed
from the several counties in the State 10
serve at the State Fair, will be expected to
he in Columbia by Wednesday morning,
Nov. 8, when they will act as an escort to
the delegates to the "forty-year farmers, y
convention from the Grand Central Hotel to
the Fair grounds. The Old Farmers Con
vention will meet at the fair grounds. at IL
o'clock a. M, Nov 9 At 10o'clock the pro
cession will be formed in front of the Grand
Central, and will proceed to the fair
grounds.
At a meeting of the Board of Trade OF
Columbia Wednesday a letter was read
which had been received by the secretary
from Col. Pearce, the President of the
board. Col Pearce stated that Capt. Reed
Whitford, assistant engineer, and Capt
Bixby would have the government steam
boat Congaree at CRANKY. three miles from
Columbia, on Monday, Nov. T. The boat
will be put at the disposal of the Board OF
| Trade and will run down the river as far as
Congaree bridge at Kingsville. The Board
of Trade has invited the United States
Senators, the South Carolina Congressman
Mayor Rhett, Gov. Richardson, the State
Senators and Representatives of Richland
county and the press to make the run down
the river on this boat. The steamer vii
take the excursion party to the Congaree
bridge, and they will return TO the city or
the evening tla.n from Charleston.
The penitentiary authorities have con
cluded the sale, TO Capt. Richard O'Neale
of 155 bales of cotton from the two Seegers
places at S.95c., and about sixty -eight bales
from the State farm, at DC. The proceeds
of the first sale are to be- divided equally
with the Seegers, but the money from the
J State farm crop goes exclusively to the pen.
itentiary. The States share this year OF
the crops on the plantations worked on
shares will be about 800 bales of cotton
5000 bushels of corn and large quantity OF
peas and other miscellaneous produce The
freshet, caterpillars, etc, prevented this
return from being very much greater. The
penitentiary has been more than self-sus
tanning this year A year ago there was debt
of about S27 900 hanging over the institution
The Legislature app opriated $4,000 to it:
support during tb@ year At present the
debt is about $1,000, and there is Sl0, 00t
, worth OF cotton to cover it. While the
State cannot this year be refunded its S25,
900, the record shows that the penitentiary
has earned about $4,000 above its expenses
during the fiscal year just closed.
At Sumter Thursday the subscribers tC
the stock of the Simonds National Bank met
and in the course of his remarks DR.. Simond
said that an effort would be made to make
, the bank a government depository, and thai
no advantages possessed by any bank any
where would be wanting to this one. Itwil
} be run and backed by the First Nationa